Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the benefits delivered to traditional retailers from using shopping portals as their entry mechanism to the online trading environment. The paper also aims to highlight the possible drawbacks inherent in such an approach. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach was used with an online portal, combining documentary analysis and semi-st...

coordination, the systems on top of this can be information processing types of information systems. The information technology infrastructure does not only favour textile and apparel industry. The infrastructure is also adopted by other industrial applications in Hong Kong, such as service industry, transportation logistics, and CAD/CAPP/CAM. Most of these applications cover all of the informa...

where she works in the Competence Center for Electronic Markets. She holds a lic. oec. HSG from the University of St. Gallen and a CEMS Master degree granted by the Community of European Management schools. Her original research focus was the analysis of EDI costs and benefits in the Swiss Health Care system. Currently she is responsible for the development of a WWW application for the structur...

This study aims to explore how consumers evaluate these time attributes; i.e., the value of time, when they are facing a shopping mode choice between physical store shopping and e-shopping. For this purpose, it conducts an experiment to acquire data on respondents’ stated preference choices between physical bookstore shopping and online bookstore shopping. It is finally found that the value of ...

The present study proposes arousal as an important mechanism driving buying impulsiveness. We examined the effect of buying impulsiveness on arousal in non-shopping and shopping contexts. In an eye-tracking experiment, we measured pupil dilation while participants viewed and rated pictures of shopping scenes and non-shopping scenes. The results demonstrated that buying impulsiveness is closely ...

Abstract: Online shopping is a process in which buy goods or services through the Internet. With large of consumer using Internet for online shopping, it is not clear what drives them to shop online (Monsure et al., 2006) and studies regarding consumer behavior towards online shopping in the Malaysian environment is still limited number (Haque and Khatibi, 2006). Thus, this study objective is t...

Strides in information technology and improvements in networking technology have set the pace for rapid growth in new applications of electronic commerce in a variety of settings. Business to business (B2B), business to customer (B2C), customer to business (C2B), and customer to customer (C2C) have become prevalent business channels and have reshaped the ways that business transactions are cond...

Shopping orientations are useful in the study of patronage behaviour including store loyalty, brand loyalty, in-home shopping, and out-shopping. This paper describes an empirical study that examined the relationship between shopping orientations, product types, and consumer intentions to use the Internet for shopping. Analyses of data collected from over 750 survey respondents reveal that home,...

Multimedia, social media content, and interaction are common means to attract customers in shopping. However these features are not always fully available for customers when they go shopping in physical shopping centers. The authors propose Smart Shopping Assistant, a multimedia and social media augmented system on mobile devices to enhance users’ experience and interaction in shopping. Smart S...

This study examines contemporary shopping centres from a critical standpoint as spatial devices of the current global socio-economic system in which public realm is reduced to an active shopping realm. Thus, shopping centres that are spatial instruments of modern consumption culture are being transformed into means of social disintegration by breaking individual from community. Therefore, the a...